IHS NewsUnlike others, U.S. defends freedom to offend in speech.
Read American Exception
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Press Release from the American Humanist Association. (http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/samesexmarriageca.php)
May 15, 2008
Washington, D.C., May 15, 2008) Humanists across the nation expressed jubilation in the wake of today’s California high court decision in favor of same-sex marriage. “Despite resistance, times are clearly changing,” declared American Humanist Association (AHA) executive director Roy Speckhardt. “Basic equality cannot be forever denied, […]
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There is something deeply amiss when we send soldiers on a mission to engender peaceful coexistence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, yet our military doesn’t seem able to offer religious tolerance to its own.
See article by by Robyn Blumner published in the Salt Lake Tribune and Common Dreams.
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The Don Edwards Civil Liberties Award is presented annually by the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California to an individual or organization that has played a significant role in promoting or defending civil liberties in the Santa Clara Valley community during the past year.
This year’s award will be […]
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The International Humanist and Ethical Union – of which the NSS is an affiliate – has warned that Islamic governments are trying to use the United Nations to shut down free speech. The warning comes as a bloc of Islamic states held a summit to discuss how supposed widespread “Islamophobia” can be legally challenged in […]
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The Humanist Community, through the work of Peter and Catherine Bishop, has adopted the Ghana project, which involves raising funds to buy some desks for the LKDP school in the village of Larabanga in northern Ghana. To read more go to ghana-project.pdf.
To view photos.
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Prof. Clark W. Reynolds, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford, will discuss what globalization is, some of its good and bad effects, and what might be done to reduce inequality, rebuild America, and foster sustainability. Prof. Reynolds was a Professor of Development Economics at Stanford for 33 years, and has researched and taught in Latin […]
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The blogosphere has erupted in anger over the past week, since the Students’ Union at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Ontario, rejected club status for a group of atheists and freethinkers. But both union officials and club members told the local newspaper that it was all a misunderstanding.
See “Canadian University Says Atheists Are Welcome to […]
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What have I done that I can neither cross my own threshold nor enjoy human company?
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Iranian Women Speak Out.
Source: New Internationalist (www.newint.org)
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